Edie Lush

BBC Worldwide Interview about Trayvon Martin

BBC Worldwide Interview about Trayvon Martin

Edie Lush interview on BBC Worldwide about the tragic killing of Trayvon Martin, the impact of social media, the mainstream media and politics.

Davos report: VC Accel Partners' Joe Schoendorf on cloud sourcing democracy & Silicon Valley jobs

Hub Culture Davos Pavilion 2012
Executive Editor Edie Lush’s Blog

A year ago in Davos WEF participants watched as the Tunisian revolution spread to Egypt, fueled by the activities of the Egyptian people on social media sites like Twitter and Facebook. A year later, Davos begins on the heels of the demise of SOPA (the Stop Online Piracy Act). Joe, Schoendorf, Partner at Venture Capital firm Accel Partners who backed Facebook says that when he looks into the future it’s hard to underestimate the role mobile connectivity will play.

Ten years ago we had a billion people on mobile phones. Ten years from now, all but a billion will be connected. And those people will probably be too young to hold a phone. You can’t think of an area of our lives that won’t be affected. The crowd sourced democracy we saw last week – where the people said no to SOPA – that’s because they had the power of the internet behind them.

Clean Energy Intel's Edie Lush interviews British Solar King Jeremy Leggett

Discussion of whether demand for solar will hold up have been very topical recently. There’s clear evidence of strong growth in demand in the US. . We’ve also pointed out that demand remains bright in Asia . However, the outlook in Europe remains shaky. Consequently, we’ve taken a good look at the consequences of the recent cut in the government’s Feed In Tarriff in the UK. Last week we spoke to Ploughcroft’s Chris Hopkins , who told Clean Energy Intel that the best of the British solar industry would survive the UK’s cut in the Feed-In-Tariff.

This week, Clean Energy Intel’s Edie Lush reached out to Jeremy Leggett, one of the UK’s leading entrepreneurial lights. He’s founder and Chairman of Solarcentury, the UK’s largest solar solutions company, and SolarAid, a charity set up with Solarcentury profits.

This was written for Clean Energy Intel